Improvement in machines for felling trees



than gram 33mm Qbflflitt.

HENRY J. BEARD, or NEW SHARON, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JAMES HAWES, J R.

Letters Patent No. 108,675, dated October 25, '1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR FELIQING TREES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'wlzom'it may concern: L Be it known that I, HENRY J. BEAR of New 7 Sharon, in the county of Franklin and State of Maine,

This invention relates to a new device for facilitat ing the'throwing of felled trees in any desired direction, and for also facilitating the felling of the trees.

The invention consists in the use of a screw and nut, which are inserted in a -kerf cutinto that side of the tree which is opposite to where the tree is to fall, so that the lever which is produced by the screw and out not only prevents the falling of the tree to thatside on whichthe lever is applied, but will also, by being lengthened, when a second kcrf is cut into the opposite side of the tree, serve to throw the tree,-

c'ven if the same has not been cut very far.

A in the drawing represents a screw,'.of suitable length, fitted into a nut, B, of cast-iron or other suit able material. The nut B has a long narrow upper edge, which may be corrugated or roughened as shown, and which may be beveled toward one side, as indicated Cis a metal shoe. The same is a plate, of suitable si'llc, with a roughened or other lower surface, and

'with a depression in the upper surfacenvhicli will form a step for'thc screw A.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: into that side of a tree which is opposite to where the tree is to fall is cut a kerf, as shown in fig. 1. The plate 0 is then set into this kerf, as shown, and

then the'screwA is set with its lower end upon the.

plate (l; s

The screw is then turned untilthe upper face or edge of the nut B bitesagainst the wood, as in fig. 1. The device will then serve as a brace, to prevent the tree from falling toward the kerf in which the screw is arranged. v

A kert' is then cut-into the opposite side of the tree; as indicated in dotted lines in fig. 2; and if that is considered large enough, the screw isturncd, by

means oi rany suitable instrument, so as to unscrew from the nut. The'lever-in the first kerf will thereby be lengthened, and will cause the tree to fall toward the second kerf.

, The main advantages of this invention are, first,

that a-tre'e, however inclined it may stand to one sideycah still, with great case, be thrown to the opposite side; and, second, that the tree need not be out as much as was heretofore necessary to cause its fall, as the leverage of the screw and not will be so great that they will give the tree the desired inclination to make it break its connection with the stump.

I claim as new and desire to secure .byLetters Patent- I The tree feIIer, consisting of the screw A, rounded at its lower end, which rests in the socket of a detachable step, O, and carrying a nut, 13, having two radial arms, corrugated and beveled upon their upper. edges,

Vitnesscs:

WM. 1 MONAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

